Lyndsey Scott is an American model, software developer, and actress.
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30 Facts About Lyndsey Scott
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Lyndsey Scott was the first African American model to sign an exclusive runway contract with Calvin Klein.
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Lyndsey Scott has been credited for challenging the stereotypes about models and computer programmers, and for inspiring young women to code.
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Lyndsey Scott grew up in West Orange, New Jersey, as the eldest of four children.
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Lyndsey Scott's father founded a home healthcare company after having been a programmer for the National Security Agency.
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Lyndsey Scott practiced martial arts since the age of nine, and earned a black belt in Taekwondo.
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Lyndsey Scott says peers would invite then uninvite her from parties, and tell her she couldn't sit with them in the dining room.
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Lyndsey Scott ran and did high jump for the Amherst track and field team, earning All-America status for the 400 meter dash.
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Lyndsey Scott graduated Amherst College in 2006 with a joint degree in theatre and computer science.
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Lyndsey Scott's body had changed in college, partly due to taking weight-gain supplements, and she says she "started looking more like a model".
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In early 2009 Lyndsey Scott's work was handing out flyers on a street corner when she got a call from fashion house Calvin Klein.
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Lyndsey Scott changed agencies to Elite Model Management, which was more accepting of her actual age.
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Lyndsey Scott wrote about being awkward and bullied in high school, then getting model looks after college, and the advantages and problems that came with that, while still programming in taped glasses at home.
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Lyndsey Scott's answer was reprinted in Slate, Business Insider, and PopSugar.
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Until that time, Lyndsey Scott had kept her programming separate from her modeling.
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Lyndsey Scott started programming at the age of 12, by writing games for her TI-89 graphing calculator and sharing them with friends in middle school.
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Lyndsey Scott says that though she enjoyed programming in college, she went into acting and modeling professionally because she never saw herself spending her life around other computer programmers; after graduating, most of her programming was done alone.
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Lyndsey Scott is passionate about educating others to program, especially young women.
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Lyndsey Scott maintains a profile on Stack Overflow, a website where users gain reputation for providing answers about computer programming.
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Lyndsey Scott was the top ranked user for iOS questions on the site for one month in 2015.
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Lyndsey Scott is the author of multiple iOS programming tutorials on RayWenderlich.
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Lyndsey Scott has given talks on programming at schools in Harlem and NYU, and mentored Girl Scouts in programming in Los Angeles.
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Lyndsey Scott was a keynote speaker for the Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business in 2014, and a presenter for the Ford Freedom Awards in 2015.
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Lyndsey Scott's second was iPort, intended to help models organize their career portfolio digitally.
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Lyndsey Scott says she developed it because it was something she personally needed, as her paper portfolio books were heavy and falling apart.
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Code Made Cool, released in conjunction with Lyndsey Scott's 2014 appearance on the cover of Asos magazine, was an iPhone app that taught girls programming via drag and drop in fantasy scenarios with animated pictures of Ryan Gosling.
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Lyndsey Scott developed beautifulBook for Firebloom Media; it displays classic literature in stylish fonts and backgrounds.
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Ryse Up is a multimedia application to connect established and emerging musical artists, produced by the company of the same name for which Lyndsey Scott was a senior engineer for the 1.
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Early in her modeling career, Lyndsey Scott lived on Roosevelt Island in New York City; she said that compared to downtown Manhattan, her apartment was bigger for less money, and she could be involved in the community.
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In 2016, she was sued by an unhappy renter who leased her Roosevelt Island apartment through Airbnb, and said that the apartment was dilapidated and the area unsafe; Lyndsey Scott said the posted photos, descriptions and reviews were verifiable and accurate.
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